Adventures in adventuring

Today I'm installing Mandrake Linux on my brother's laptop. I've never installed any type of Linux on anything before, so I'm a bit apprehensive. Hopefully I won't screw this up too badly.

Got thrown by the partitioning. I figured a small base partition and a large swap partition would be good. Hopefully that won't come back to bite me in the ass.

All the packages I picked to install don't even half fill the base partition, so I guess that's a good sign. Wish me luck, imaginary readers.